Factors resulting in traveler disaffection and misbehavior: a study of airports' physical and social environment
Presentation / Conference
Ali, F., Gannon, M. J., & Taheri, B. (2017, November)
Factors resulting in traveler disaffection and misbehavior: a study of airports' physical and social environment. Paper presented at 4th World Research Summit for Tourism and Hospitality : Innovation, Partnership, and Sharing
Airports play a significant role in globalization, connecting cities and countries. According to Clarkson (2015), the 20 busiest airports in the world moved more than 700 mill...
Review of transformative festival leadership – a learning and teaching discussion
Presentation / Conference
Robertson, M. (2017, July)
Review of transformative festival leadership – a learning and teaching discussion. Paper presented at Association of Event Management Educators (AEME) 2017 Event Futures – Innovation, Creativity, Collaboration
A discussion of the linkage between the critical review of research in festival leadership and sustainable management, and critical creativity in Honours year (level 6) learni...
Visioning the future city - a discussion on the narrative of sustainability through events and festivals
Presentation / Conference
Robertson, M. (2015, July)
Visioning the future city - a discussion on the narrative of sustainability through events and festivals. Paper presented at LSA 2015 Creating Leisure
This conceptual work discusses a visionary future of the city destination in which festival and events have a purposeful role in narrating sustainable development – a megatren...
Meanings and myths: Semiotics of Edinburgh Castle
Presentation / Conference
Todd, L., & Furger, T. (2018, May)
Meanings and myths: Semiotics of Edinburgh Castle. Paper presented at Royal Anthropological Institute’s (RAI) Annual Conference: Art, Materiality and Representation, the Royal Anthropological Institute, The Department Of Africa, Oceania And The Americas Of The British Museum And The Department Of Anthropology At SOAS, London
Short abstract
We will present initial themes from my study into the semiotics of Edinburgh Castle through analysing shared online images. As a semiotic sign, Edinburgh Castle...
Materiality, memories and lived event tourism experiences
Presentation / Conference
Todd, L., Leask, A., & Ensor, J. (2017, June)
Materiality, memories and lived event tourism experiences. Presented at Critical Tourism Studies: Understand Tourism- Change Tourism, Understand Ourselves - Change Ourselves
Our paper furthers understanding of lived experiences in tourism settings as remembered by informants. We propose the value of a phenomenological ‘artefact elicitation’ method...
A case study of employee engagement in the hospitality industry
Presentation / Conference
Barron, P., & Leask, A. (2013, May)
A case study of employee engagement in the hospitality industry. Paper presented at Council for Hospitality Management Education, 22nd Annual Research Conference
No abstract available.
Innovating to engage the Gen Y audience – visitor engagement with museum collections during ‘Lates’ events at the National Museum of Scotland.
Presentation / Conference
Leask, A., & Barron, P. (2017, December)
Innovating to engage the Gen Y audience – visitor engagement with museum collections during ‘Lates’ events at the National Museum of Scotland. Paper presented at 4th World Tourism Summit for Tourism and Hospitality: Innovation, Partnerships and Sharing., Rosen College, UCF, Florida
No abstract available.
The Rurban Interface ~ investigating the potency of niche sport events as brand narrative for destinations: Case Study: UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Fort William, Scotland
Presentation / Conference
Robertson, M., & Darby, P. (2007, December)
The Rurban Interface ~ investigating the potency of niche sport events as brand narrative for destinations: Case Study: UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Fort William, Scotland. Paper presented at International Event Research Conference
No abstract available.
Activating the diaspora: engagement and satisfaction amongst philanthropic transient volunteer tourists
Presentation / Conference
Thompson, J., Gannon, M. J., Curran, R., & Taheri, B. (2017, December)
Activating the diaspora: engagement and satisfaction amongst philanthropic transient volunteer tourists. Paper presented at Academy of Marketing: Tourism Marketing Special Interest Group (SIG
This study develops understanding of diasporic volunteers who travel for the purpose of fundraising and other supporting roles (excluding service delivery), and seek to contri...
It’s all Greek to me: Stakeholder Perspectives on Scotland’s Reformed Tourism Structures
Presentation / Conference
Anastasiadou, C. (2016, September)
It’s all Greek to me: Stakeholder Perspectives on Scotland’s Reformed Tourism Structures. Paper presented at 25th Nordic Tourism Symposium
Processes of territorialisation, devolution and rescaling within Europe are creating spatially redefined destinations that are giving rise to novel and distinctive tourism str...